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>> ^chicchorea:

Nice. What is your affiliation with these performers and/or video?


Hi there, the girls actually used to be my back door neighbours. This is one of their first uploads and I think the world should hear more from them. So I thought I'd shear it with you

Oh gods, Kevlar, I'm going to have to recover before I decide if that is the best comment, in so many ways, I have ever read.

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>> ^Payback:

Is it just me or would these "firemen" be better off fighting the blaze than busting out the camera phone for the "oh gee whiz" moment?


Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?

My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.

Actual LOL from me while in the office! You bastard.

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>> ^Kevlar:

Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?
My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.


Oranges to apples. If one of YOUR imaginary kids suddenly proclaimed they were a demon and grabbed a pair of scissors and said their sister/brother must die. Would you go grab the camera or try to disarm them?

Any firefighter will have at least a passing knowledge of -albeit rare, but not undocumented- "fire whirls" which are observed mostly during wildfires.

I haven't found much on Google about Spontaneous Infant Demonification.

>> ^Kevlar:

Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?
My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.


Oranges to apples. If one of YOUR imaginary kids suddenly proclaimed they were a demon and grabbed a pair of scissors and said their sister/brother must die. Would you go grab the camera or try to disarm them?

Any firefighter will have at least a passing knowledge of -albeit rare, but not undocumented- "fire whirls" which are observed mostly during wildfires.

I haven't found much on Google about Spontaneous Infant Demonification.

>> ^Payback:

Is it just me or would these "firemen" be better off fighting the blaze than busting out the camera phone for the "oh gee whiz" moment?


Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?

My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.

was fucking EVER in the question???

1. she wouldn't have you
2. unless you're todd palin it's completely and utterly irrelevant
3. i can't believe you actually took the rhetorical douchebag bait intended for qm.
4. ad hominem, ad hominem, ad hominem.


>> ^Shepppard:

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You know, I don't even think fucking is in the question anymore. I personally couldn't do it, I don't care if she came in covered in whipped cream holding a plate of cheeseburgers, all the shear stupidity that pours out of that woman non-stop has removed any form of fuckability from her in my eyes.

@dystopianfuturetoday

You know, I don't even think fucking is in the question anymore. I personally couldn't do it, I don't care if she came in covered in whipped cream holding a plate of cheeseburgers, all the shear stupidity that pours out of that woman non-stop has removed any form of fuckability from her in my eyes.

I see 4 major problems with this...

I see is tires running on a wet glass road. The glass is a lot flatter than asphalt, and so hydroplaning will be far more prevalent unless specific tires were made to cope.

Further, the cost issue will be catastrophic. Solar panels are very, very expensive. Manufacturing solar cells these days is a fairly dirty process, with many very hazardous bi-products. Producing enough solar cells to cover even just major roads would be problematic.

There is also a huge issue of light pollution. Upward facing LEDs replacing road lines is going light up the night sky to absurd degrees, especially in the already light doused cities.

And finally, there is the issue of shifting roads. No matter where you are, soil is always moving. Look outside at the nearest street and see if you can't find a crack due to soil shearing. This will be especially bad in certain geographic locations. Breaking of the roads will require challenging repairs and custom peices to be made. Further, if the roads are replacing power lines as was suggested, power outages would occur as a result of these road breaks, and restoring power will take as long as it takes to fix the road, weeks probably, longer if there is severe damage from natural disasters, earthquakes, etc.

I love the ingenuity, but it is just not practical...

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This entire thing is one of the greatest marketing campaigns EVER.

My god they have jumped on this and just begun spinning gold. And the shear number of responses they/he have done is amazing... and, the couple of dozen I just watched were all funny.

Bravo marketing team... bravo *slow clap*

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MaxWilder is 100% correct. BP CEO Tony Hayward made it very clear that the goal is a return to "production". Watching many of the BP ROV feeds the last couple weeks and it's obvious the main purpose of the "containment cap" is to get some oil into a damn tanker, not stopping the leak. "Containment" is NOT the same as stopping flow. If they wanted to stop it, they could have done it in a week, immho. Cut the bolts on flange currently just below the cap with that fancy-shmancy diamond blade, silver seal, tree, close valves. Take your sweet time with the relief wells. Easy peasy (although it may be not so easy-peasy a mile down).

The condition of the pipe directly above the upper flange of the BOP after the shear op made it virtually unsealable using the inflatable gasket within the cap as they had described. Reports of increasing oil capture rates mean nothing when thousands of barrels a day are still pouring out the bottom of the cap. We were told that as they close off vents of the cap, the rates of recovered oil will increase. Bullshit. The vents were wide open when they put that puppy on, and you couldn't even see the the thing because so much oil was leaking through the bottom seals. Closing off the vents may increase the pressure of oil heading up the pipe, but it will also increase the amount of pressure on the seal (5000ft of head notwithstanding). Seems to me the only way make the current containment cap work is if some super-duper pump is able to suck (I know... pumps don't suck; day one of "A" school) oil up 5000 feet of pipe faster than the oil is flowing out the top of the BOP.

I just checked the BP feeds (Skandi ROV 1, Skandi ROV 2, and Enterprise ROV 1), and the amount of oil flowing out the bottom of the cap is only slightly improved from when they slapped the thing on there.

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7062605

The bridge operator was either chemically or medically impaired. He raised the bridge, thought he saw the stern of the ship clear the bridge and so lowered it. The ship hadn't cleared the bridge (obviously) and attempted to radio the operator and continuously blasted its horn. The operator claimed not to have heard either the radio or the ship's horn. The really amazing thing is that the captain sent everyone off the bridge and then laid down on the floor with the wheelhouse was sheared off 2 feet over him